I have no great love for Democrats and no illusions about their commitment to liberty, but, as James Leroy Wilson points out http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1708 , they are looking a heckuva lot better to me than the rat bast**ds of the GOP. In fact, I am so pissed off at the GOP that I am going to vote straight ticket Democrat for the foreseeable future. I don’t even care if the Democrats I will be voting for are to the left of Chairman Mao; I just want to do my small part to punish the GOP. No party should be allowed to believe that it can suck as much as the GOP and get away with it.
I would like to see the Democrats run on impeachment in 2006 and make the midterm elections the people’s chance to stick it to Bush and Cheney and their henchpersons. I say gin up Articles of Impeachment charging everything from lying us into an illegal war, outing a CIA operative, illegal surveillance, torture, murder, the works. Every Democrat would then pledge to vote for the Articles if elected to the House, and every Democratic Senate candidate would pledge that, if the charges be true, he or she would vote to convict at the impeachment trial. Some Republicans might even make the pledge if the movement gets up a head of steam.
And a good argument for a Democrat majority would be that it would mean that the new President after Cheney and Bush go down would be a Democratic Speaker of the House, who would then be an incumbent going in to 2008 and who would make sure that there would be daily reminders of the crimes of the GOP right on through the 2008 election.
If this works, the GOP would have to purge itself of its numerous evildoers and work on restoring itself to some kind of credibility if it ever hoped to get back in power.
I am praying for a massive and humiliating defeat of the GOP in 2006.
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That is quite an emotional rant. Did you feel the same way when chickenhawk Bill Clinton lied us into conflicts around the world killing countless thousands? Were you upset that Echelon and Carnivore were eavesdropping on our telephone calls, emails, etc.? Do you realize Democrats gave Bush the authority to go to war and continue to fund that crime. Do you realize that Democrats are one of the two heads on the monster known as the "state?" Go ahead, vote - for more of the same.
Careful what you wish for - I was irritated that those who fought for the impeachment of the criminal anti-freedom nanny-government Clinton were humiliated by the gutless wonders of the Senate, and while I voted Libertarian in 2000 I was thrilled that the Clinton-Gore thugs would not continue to control the White House - only to find that there's really no difference between Democrat thugs and Republican thugs, and the assault on and erosion of our liberties has continued unabated and even sped up on their way down the slippery slope.
What you propose is that those who think a Democratic White House would save us from the thugs have a similar "Meet the new boss, same (or worse) as the old boss" experience in '07.
A Democratic House and/or Senate with a Republican White House might create gridlock, which would be better than what we have now. But we might also finally see that these people - both major parties - mean to crush our liberty and will find "compromises" to accomplish that goal.
What's needed is a change of attitude and direction from what either the Tweedledee nannies or the Tweedledum nannies offer.
Yes, I was unhappy with Clinton, too. But I don't think libertarians are ever going to amount to anything politically, and I am going to be stuck with one of the major heads of the beast anyway. So I am left with picking the slightly less crappy head and hoping that the heads will keep each other in check at least a little bit.
I wouldn't mind if every president from here on out was impeached as a matter of course.
"I wouldn't mind if every president from here on out was impeached as a matter of course."
Not a bad idea; we'd have to impeach most of the Supreme Court, too, and the problem is that the congressman and senators who are supposed to do the impeaching are just as bad or worse.
It's a dilemma, we have to throw the rascals out but half of the population believes in Tweedledee and the other half believes in Tweedledum. It's an almost total Statist victory. We have a lot of talking to do to convince people to take control of their own lives.
Speaking as one who thought the less crappy head was the GOP, all I can tell you is when you go with "less crappy," eventually you have to reach the conclusion that "hey! this is all crap!!"
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